Jazz Vocalist Patricia Adams and piano legend, Berklee Professor Ray Santisi Headline Main Stage At Ryles Jazz Club On May 18th

Ryles Jazz Club proudly presents an evening of jazz and blues standards featuring Patricia Adams [vocals], Ray Santisi [piano], Greg Loughman [bass] and Gary Johnson [drums]. This is the quartet whose been playing to standing room only every month at Ryles Sunday brunch. Now, the Club is presenting them in concert Thursday evening, May 18th at 9:00 pm.

Ryles is located at 212 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is free parking, a delicious snack menu, a great bartender named Rick and a sound engineer, James. There is a $12 cover charge at the door. Reservations 617 876 9330.

Support live music. Treat yourself to an evening that will recall you to a time when all anybody needed for a good time, was 32 bars and a melody that swings.

Check out Ryles Jazz Club May 18th, 9:00 pm


About Us: PATRICIA ADAMS, bandleader and vocalist, shuttles her renditions of standards from renaissance Harlem and Tin Pan Alley between Manhattan, Westchester, Hartford and Boston.

Stepping onto a nightclub stage for the first time in 1992 at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Adams segued to designated show opener there for the Frank Wilkins Vocal Showcase until 1996. Two years, a hundred open mics and twenty nursing homes later, she took the plunge and traded her thirty-five year career in human resources management for life as a full time artist. Many press kits and phone calls later, her venues now attract those who enjoy the jazz and blues standards of the 1930's and '40's. Her following has grown from family and friends to thousands. Earning BS and MBA degrees in the 1960's, Adams studied music theory, harmony, and improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston and at the Performing Arts School of Worcester in the 1990's

Adams' discography includes Live @ Ryles Jazz Club (2005), With Our Compliments ! (2004), Out Of This World (2001) which placed in four categories on the 2001 Grammy Awards ballot, Blue For You (1998), and Raw Silk (1996). Her recordings are available through North Country Distributors in Redwood, NY, cdBaby.com, TowerRecords.com, GaragistaMusic.com and Amazon.com.

Adams is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and served on the board of the New England Conservatory. .

RAY SANTISI , pianist and music director, is an internationally known jazz pianist who has played as featured soloist with Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Mel Torme, Irene Kral, Natalie Cole, and countless other well-known jazz greats. He toured Japan, Russia and parts of Europe and South America over the years, although these days he concentrates his time in Boston. He is a professor of piano at the Berklee College of Music. He has recorded on major labels, such as Capitol, Roulette, United Artists, Bethlehem, Transition, Rasan and Sonnet. His discography includes “Spellbinder”, released in 1998 and “Ray Santisi, Piano: Live @Ryles Jazz Club”, released in 2004. Both are available for sale @ www.CDBaby.com/all/RaySantisi and for digital download @ Apple iTunes.com

"a man sitting on top of the world, professionally speaking." Ernie Santusuosso, Boston Globe jazz critic

" the most exciting piano player I've heard since those first sessions with Bill Evans and Marian McPartland and Oscar Peterson." The Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer

"Boston's most in-demand jazz pianist." The Boston Phoenix

Teaching with Stan Kenton's summer jazz clinics on college campuses throughout the country, performing in Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia, receiving two grants for composition and performance from the National Endowment for the Arts are a few examples of Ray’s global appeal. Ray Santisi's The Real Thing, a multi-talented group, brings the vitality of fresh, contemporary arrangements to the classic music of the Great American Song Book. The group's internationally-known instrumentalists are complemented and enhanced by fine vocalese, creating a unique ensemble effect.

A Ray Santisi Trio plays every Sunday at the Marriott Copley Hotel, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA in the Terrace Lounge on the mezzanine from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm and on the first Sunday of each month, for brunch between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm, at Ryles Jazz Club.

“Bassist GREG LOUGHMAN started playing electric bass at age fifteen in Zanesville, OH. He earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at Capital University, where he studied electric and upright bass with Doug Richeson (bassist for a number of years with Tony Bennet), Jeff Ciampa, and Lou Fisher. While in college, he worked his way into the Columbus, OH jazz scene. Upon graduation, he quickly rose to a prominent position as one of the top freelance jazz bassists in the Midwest. After spending a year in Montana , Greg moved to Boston where he continues to pursue an active schedule of performing and recording. He has performed with musicians including Curtis Fuller, JoAnne Brackeen, Kenwood Dennard, Greg Abate, Ray Santisi, Mark Greel, Rusty Scott, Al Vega, Grammy-nominated pianist Phillip Aaberg, guitarist Mimi Fox, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Carlos Malta, jazz violinist Christian Howes, singer Patti Page, actor/singer James Naughton, and the Jimmy Dorsey Big Band, among many others. His musical career has taken him on tours of Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Czech Republic, and Japan. Greg is also a faculty member at the University of Maine in Augusta, where he teaches private bass lessons. His debut cd is "a charming and sultry sojourn into Latin jazz. From Eric "The Fish" Paton's first timbale riffs on "Descarga" to Kris Keith's florid flute solo on the albums closer, "Khadsin," you're transported back to the world of Getz-meets-Jobim and sangria…This is Greg's baby, he wrote all the tunes, but his playing is supremely unselfish— not once do you stop and think, "Oh, this is the bass player's album," ..if you're looking to relax to a well-crafted Latin-jazz album, this is definitely worth checking out.” - Don Zulaica, jazz critic, Alternate Music Press May 2001

GARY JOHNSON [drums], attended Berklee College of Music from 1972 to 1974. Formal training consisted of extensive studies with Instructor Bill Flanagan, Fred Buda of the Boston Pops and Jazz Artist Alan Dawson. Gary has been working professionally for the past twentu-eight years. For four years he traveled extensively with the Artie Shaw Orchestra under the direction of Dick Johnson. During that time, he accompanied such artists as: Buddy DeFranco, Rosemarie Clooney, Frankie Laine, Helen Forest and Connie Haines. Other appearances with Scott Hamilton, Dave McKenna, Ken Peplowski, Dizzy Gillespie, Ruby Braff and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Gary is currently freelancing in the New England Area.

Contact Info: patadams@rcn.com

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Company: Patricia Adams Ensembles

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Phone: 914 478 3297